In the four year of Obama it can be seen that the indiviual use of food stamps has increased approximately 13.7 million. Considering that the unemployment rate has effectively not changed, as promised, in the four years of Obama then he actually has created NO jobs.

But using the numbers above only on jobs created was about 1.352 million. 13.7/1.352=10 approximately, the last four months were a guess for 2012. So the claim was a bit inflated but certainly the reality is not much better.

In the four year of Obama it can be seen that the indiviual use of food stamps has increased approximately 13.7 million. Considering that the unemployment rate has effectively not changed, as promised, in the four years of Obama then he actually has created NO jobs.

But using the numbers above only on jobs created was about 1.352 million. 13.7/1.352=10 approximately, the last four months were a guess for 2012. So the claim was a bit inflated but certainly the reality is not much better.

Those numbers are not reliable. First their "real unemployment" is not just unemployed..they're adding in the Marginally Attached (people not trying to work but likely to start looking) and people working part time for economic reasons, meaning they're counting people working up to 34 hours/week as 'Unemployed," because they want to work more hours.

And they have the data wrong. First, when comparing the same month in different years, it's more accurate to look at the not seasonally adjusted data (especially since marginally attached is not seasonally adjusted).
So... going to the Historical Data we pick Table A-1, select Unemployed not seasonally adjusted and the number of unemployed was 9,469,000
For Oct 2012 it was 11,741,000 a change of 2,272,000

Your link claims they're using the U6 denominator, so we'll go to Table A-8, not seasonally adjusted part time for economic reasons and get 6,267,000 for 2008 and 7,870,000 for 2012. Huh, that's funny...they were claiming a total of only 13.5 million but our total so far is 15,736,000 for 2008 and we're not done yet.

Next is Table A-16 where we add in Marginally Attached which was 1,637,000 in 2008 and 2,433,000 in 2012. Final count is 2008 = 17,373,000 for 2008 and 22,044,000 in 2012

Breaking it down again, that's an increase of 2,272,000 Unemployed, increase of 1,603,000 people working part time due to cut hours or couldn't find full time work, and an increase of 796,000 people who looked for work sometime in the last year but aren't looking now though they now could work if offered.

Things are bad enough, I don't get why people have to distort things to make them look worse. (I'm assuming you're being honest and the bogus numbers at your link just deceived you.) Go to the source, don't trust blogs or political sites.

Those numbers are not reliable. First their "real unemployment" is not just unemployed..they're adding in the Marginally Attached (people not trying to work but likely to start looking) and people working part time for economic reasons, meaning they're counting people working up to 34 hours/week as 'Unemployed," because they want to work more hours.

And they have the data wrong. First, when comparing the same month in different years, it's more accurate to look at the not seasonally adjusted data (especially since marginally attached is not seasonally adjusted).
So... going to the Historical Data we pick Table A-1, select Unemployed not seasonally adjusted and the number of unemployed was 9,469,000
For Oct 2012 it was 11,741,000 a change of 2,272,000

Your link claims they're using the U6 denominator, so we'll go to Table A-8, not seasonally adjusted part time for economic reasons and get 6,267,000 for 2008 and 7,870,000 for 2012. Huh, that's funny...they were claiming a total of only 13.5 million but our total so far is 15,736,000 for 2008 and we're not done yet.

Next is Table A-16 where we add in Marginally Attached which was 1,637,000 in 2008 and 2,433,000 in 2012. Final count is 2008 = 17,373,000 for 2008 and 22,044,000 in 2012

Breaking it down again, that's an increase of 2,272,000 Unemployed, increase of 1,603,000 people working part time due to cut hours or couldn't find full time work, and an increase of 796,000 people who looked for work sometime in the last year but aren't looking now though they now could work if offered.

Things are bad enough, I don't get why people have to distort things to make them look worse. (I'm assuming you're being honest and the bogus numbers at your link just deceived you.) Go to the source, don't trust blogs or political sites.

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It's not a blog or a political site.

Source; Bureau of labor statistics.

Sorry to inform you of these undeniable facts, but obama sucks ass and he's fucked Americans over for 4 years.

I don't expect librals to care, I just want them to know how much I know they suck.

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